South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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fY1 '7 f7' f'f1 f2 Fqi I' - XY' '7'7 4.2124 4. J.5JaL41f.---.3g2'g2'gf .... -------,- Z-924 fe!! 41 pride to our spacious athletic field and wonder where the money is coming from to provide bleachers and a concrete wallg then, we hunted up some large vacant lot in the neighborhood to 'Lpull offl' a championship game. And such yelling! we had our regular school yells and besides that, each class had a yell of its own. Some brilliant member of the first class tl suppose it must have been a language shark! had worked out a combination of Fiji and Choctaw that once heard could never be forgotten. And we had literary and debating teams. The Adams High School Observer made its appearance in the early 90's and enjoyed a successful tho brief careerg the wonderful literary ability developed by so many of the first class threatened to deplete the ranks of the student body. Print paper was cheap then, and we used the same old methods of soliciting ads from merchants who didn't want them, using the time-worn plea of South Side loyalty. ln most repects the first class was not so very different from the lastg they had athletics to offset algebrag parties were more enjoyable than either public speaking or penmanshipg and history was often followed by hilarity. ln the words of the ancient bard we are forced to conclude uthere is nothing new under the sun. CUMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF 1892 MARCH lNVOCATl0N .......................................... Rev. J. L. Lee lissm- 'l'lie Cream of Life and How to Skim lt .......... Lizzie Luce Essm- Spiders lOriginal Drawings! ............... Florence Wheeler UHARK. T1-tr: CITIIFEWV, lAtwoodl ...... ............ C lmrus Essm'-4'0ur Education ............. ..... Q 'Vellie Yates R1-Lclurlox- Mice at Play .............. ....,... A llaufle Amonson VOCAL SOLO ..,..................,...........,...... bophta Patterson, lJlSCl ssiorx-'SResolved, That Rip Van Winkler Was More Sinned Against than Sinningf' Af'Hrmative ......................... Fred Dustin., Henry Somsen. Negative ........................... Amy Horton, Della Kirtland lNr't.AMMA'rl1s tS'Stabat Mater, Rossini! ..................... Chorus Olmrlow-'Wl'l:ougl1ts on Coininencenicntn. ..... ....... H enry Byorum lfssm AND YAuiulcrokv-f4Paradise and the Perf' ..... Kate MczcDermid l'm1sl4:vrA'rtow or D1vLo31As ........ .. .... Supl. J. E. Bradley I2'tl

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f4'f r'g v'f4-:lv f,1vv '- - --------- --'-V7 :4.'Z'i2L: 'J.'a.551hZf.---.I gg gag 5- ...,.. ,-, ,-, 41.,1a4 ' 421 A LITERARY SUCCESS OF 1917 O make the Norse heritage in arts and letters rich with the genius of lbsen, Bjgzirnson, Wergeland, and Grieg mean something in the lives of the Norse people of America, to awaken their pride in Norse achievements that may bring to their new world home the best of the old world-these are the ideals toward which lVIiss lVlichelet, teacher of Norse at South High, is bending her energies, her enthusiasm, and her genius. Numerous magazine articles have appeared from her pen as Well as a text book in Norse which is used thruout the country. She has edited several volumes of verse and essays, and recently two biographies of Dr. Wergeland appeared from the press-one in English and the other in Norse-both of which bear lVIiss lVlichelet's name on the title page. These books have brought many commendatory reviews and a Hood of appreciative letters from cultured people here and elsewhere. lVliss Michelet has identified herself closely With many organizations for the furtherance of Scandinavian culture, organizations before which she has appeared frequently as a lecturer. She is at present educational secretary of the National Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. The following is a list of Miss lVlichelet's writings: MFirst Year Norse, a text-book, 1912, Agnes M. Wergelandis Posthumous Poems, edited, 1914, transla- tions of sketches from Mlaeaders in Norway and Other Essaysf, a collection of Wergeland's prose, 1915, HGlimpses from Agnes M. Wergeland's Lifef' and f'Glimt fra A. lVl. Wergelands Livw-two life sketches, 1916. THE FIRST CLASS AND THE LAST BY A. OLE TIMER O the class of 1892 belonged the signal honor of being the first to graduate from the South Side High School with a full complement of class night exercises, commencement program and alumni banquet. Like the student's goose egg these often came there in a row, on three successive nights. From the auditorium of the Immanuel Baptist church, the distributing point for the first basket of sheepskins, twenty-live young people went forth into a world that was heralded both cold and cruel. lt was a day long to be remembered when we left the double sessions at the Longfellow, the Irving, or the Greeley schools, and joined the ranks of the none o7clock bumsf, For let it be known that the high school student of the early nineties was a privileged character. He got out at one o'clock every day. No savory smells rose from the basement about 11 oiclock each forenoon, there was no scurrying to get near the head of the line, the cafeteria plan was still in the embryo state. No unsavory smells rose either, since a laboratory was to be found only at the state university. ln the attic of the old Adams, where this first class completed its work, there was room for no such modern improvements. Do I hear complaint from the last class that the gymnasium has no light on three or four sides? The first class never dreamed of a gymnasium, a shower bath would have been regarded with curiosity if not with awe. Athletics? Sure, out of doors there was plenty of room. Now we point with 1191

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